sluggish - Story 135910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick and stifling. John sat at a table, surrounded by stacks of books, a feeling of despondency settling deep within him. He was supposed to be researching his thesis. The words on the pages swam before his eyes. His head felt heavy, his thoughts scattered and disjointed. His mind wandered over the reasons the college had to shut down, then returned to the feeling of emptiness that now consumed him. Each action felt like wading through molasses.

Emotion: sluggish

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.03

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sluggish. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sluggish stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sluggish emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sluggish vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`sluggish`	0.263
`dreaded`	0.258
`似乎`	0.257
`буд`	0.256
`barely`	0.254

Suppressed:

`P`	-0.384
`B`	-0.379
`భి`	-0.246
`羞`	-0.243
`ຮ`	-0.238